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A US drone strike on a compound in a valley close to Pakistan’s border with
Afghanistan killed at least 14 people yesterday, security officials say.

The heavily-forested Shawal valley is used by insurgent groups, including the
Haqqani network which has been blamed for many of the recent high-profile
attacks in Kabul and elsewhere.

Pakistani security officials said that eight missiles were fired into a
compound in the village of Dre Nishtar, about 40 miles from Miranshah, the
administrative centre for the North Waziristan province.

“Those who were killed are Pakistanis as well foreigners”, a security official
told The Times. “At